Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal sends King Charles a telegram

“It is time to say ‘cease’ to the British monarchy.”
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Not everybody was celebrating as King Charles was official topped at Westminster Abbey on Saturday morning.
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In a launch, the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal (SSJB), a Quebec sovereignist group, stated it despatched a telegram to Buckingham Palace to say “the brand new king and his royal court docket will not be welcome in Quebec.”
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“We have now chosen to make use of an archaic technique of communication, the telegram, to deal with an much more archaic establishment, the monarchy. By way of this symbolic motion, we wish to emphasize, as a company emanating from the individuals of Quebec, that the monarchy has no place in Quebec,” Marie-Anne Alepin, president of the SSJB, wrote. “The coronation of Charles III represents nothing however oppression for us. The newest polls on this difficulty present an amazing majority of Quebecers who don’t establish with the British monarchy. Slightly, Quebecers aspire to a contemporary and actually democratic society, and any pretext is sweet sufficient to remind us of this.”
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“Nothing private -STOP- However King Charles III not welcome in Quebec -STOP- Energy to the individuals of Quebec -STOP,” the SSJB wrote utilizing a telegram’s outdated and awkward use of the phrase “cease” instead of a interval to ship a message that the monarchy ought to finish its ties to the province.
“On the event of King Charles III’s coronation, the SSJB remembers that the British monarchy is a logo of the historic oppression of the Quebec individuals. The hanging of patriots, the coverage of assimilation of francophones and the adoption of the Canadian structure with out the signature of Quebec are all proof that the monarchy has by no means revered the rights and aspirations of Quebec,” Alepin wrote. “It’s time to say ‘cease’ to the British monarchy.”
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